neon port won't upgrade

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Thu May 8 22:46:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:07:47PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 08), Chad Perrin said:
> > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
> > > Chad Perrin skrev:
> > > >Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of
> > > >the questions mailing list.
> > > >
> > > >This is my problem:
> > > >
> > > >  # portupgrade neon-0.26.4
> > > >  ** Port directory not found: www/neon2
> > > >  ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
> > > >        - www/neon2 (port directory error)
> > > >
> > > >Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips for how I should deal
> > > >with this?  This is the first time I've had a port fail to upgrade
> > > >because it suddenly seems to have ceased existing.
> > > 
> > > portupgrade -f -o www/neon26 neon
> > > 
> > > seemed to work for me
> > 
> > Isn't this the sort of information that should be in
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING? In my case, there's nothing in that file that
> > comes up when I search for the string "neon" (without quotes).
> 
> Do you update your entire ports tree, or just certain subdirs?  My copy
> of /usr/ports/MOVED ( rev 1.1591 ) has the following:
> 
> www/neon|www/neon26|2008-05-05|Moved to be able to integrate www/neon26
> 
> which portupgrade should have used to determine the new location of
> the port.

Now that I look at it, I see that MOVED does contain that line.  I wonder
why portupgrade didn't do its magic.

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